State TV says Iran officially has begun restricting international inspections of its nuclear facilities, a bid to pressure European countries and U.S. President Joe Biden's administration to lift economic sanctions and restore the 2015 nuclear deal
State TV says Iran has urged the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog to avoid publishing “unnecessary” details on Tehran’s nuclear program
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has conducted a drill that saw “suicide drones” crash into targets and explode
Iranian state televisions says that Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has held a naval parade in the Persian Gulf, amid heightened regional tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program
Turkey says it is extending a gas exploration mission in the eastern Mediterranean that has caused tensions with Greece in recent months
Iraq's government is struggling to pay the salaries of its public sector employees, its coffers drained because of this year's plunge in oil prices
Libya’s national oil company announced it is resuming production at the country’s largest oil field as rival officials from eastern and western Libya began peace talks, part of preliminary negotiations ahead a U.N.-brokered dialogue set to take place next month
Spain’s foreign minister says her country rejects Turkey’s unilateral search for energy reserves in the eastern Mediterranean and that negotiations are the proper way to resolve a territorial dispute that has ratcheted up regional tensions
Kuwait’s Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah has been sworn in as the ruling emir of the tiny oil-rich country
Libya’s east-based parliament has convened an emergency meeting to address the eruption of rare protests over dire living conditions across the country’s east